392 PISCES (OSSEI) ACANTHOPT. [LABRITS. 



Not an uncommon species in the British seas. Pennant and Donovan 

 obtained their specimens from Scarborough; where, according to the 

 former author, ** they appear during Summer in great shoals off Filey- 

 Bridge ; the largest weighing about five pounds." Donovan states that 

 he has also received it from Cornwall ; from the Skerry Islands, north of 

 Anglesea, and from Scotland. Mr. Yarrell mentions various parts of the 

 Irish coast, the eastern coast of England, and the shores of Dorsetshire 

 and Devonshire, as other localities for this species. -The description 

 given above is that of a specimen in the collection of the Zoological 

 Society, from the London market. Frequents rocky ground, and feeds 

 principally on Crustacea, Spawns, according to Mr. Couch, in April. 

 Obs. The colours in this, and in all the other species of this family, 

 are liable to much variation. 



69- L. lineatus, Don. (Streaked Wrasse.) 



L. lineatus, Don. Brit. Fish. vol. iv. pi. 74. Turt. Brit. Faun. 

 p. 99. Flem. Brit. An. p. 209. L. Psittacus, Riss. Hist. Nat. 

 de VEur. Mfrrid. torn. in. p. 304. ? Green- streaked Wrasse, 

 Yarr. Brit. Fish. vol. i. p. 279. 



LENGTH. Seven inches. DON. 



DESCRIPT. Body green, with numerous longitudinal yellowish lines: 

 fins greenish. Number of fin-rays, 



D. 20/10; A. 3/8; C. 15 ; P. 14; V. 8. DON. 



Obtained by Donovan from the coast of Cornwall, where it is said 

 to be provincially known by the name of Green-Fish. According to 

 Mr. Yarrell, it appears also to have been met with on the Devonshire 

 coast by Montagu. It is probably the L. Psittacus of Risso*, but Dono- 

 van's description is too imperfect to speak with certainty on this point. 



70. L. pusillus, Jenyns. (Corkling.) Ascending 

 margin of the preopercle very oblique ; a few obsolete 

 denticulations about the lower angle : soft portion of the 

 dorsal a little higher than the spinous : dorsal extending 

 a little beyond the anal. 



L. pusillus, Jen. Cat. of Brit. Vert. An. 25. sp. 69. 



LENGTH. Four inches. 



DESCRIPT. (Fbrm.) Distinguished by its small size. Back but little 

 elevated, sloping very gradually towards the snout; ventral line more 

 convex than the dorsal ; sides compressed : depth contained about three 

 times and three-quarters in the entire length ; thickness half the depth, 

 or barely so much : head one-fourth of the entire length : snout rather 

 sharp ; jaws equal : teeth of moderate size, conical, regular, about sixteen 

 or eighteen in each jaw : eyes rather high in the cheeks, situate half- 

 way between the upper angle of the preopercle and the margin of 

 the first upper lip; the space between about equal to their diameter, 

 marked with a depression; a row of elevated pores above each orbit: 

 preopercle with the ascending margin very oblique; the basal angle, 



* By an error, the L. Psitlacns was inserted in my Catalogue as British, independently ot 

 Donovan's species. 



